Robert champine (12 résultats)

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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Fine condition glossy color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Bibliography; Notes to the Plates and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographs plus additional black-and-white drawings interspersed throughout the volume. A tiny 1/16th inch initial at the inner lower left front cover corner. "The Serius Mystery argues with some sophistication the likelihookd that superior beings from Sirius visited earth between 7,000 nd 10,000 years ago.Temple unleashes a torrent of arcane information.a swirl of genuine astronomical mysteries, anthropological dates and the tricky cross-currents of comparative mythology." - Time Magazine. "A fascinating book because the nugget of mystery Temple has mined and polished is from a pure vein.The Sirius Mystery should be taken seriously." - Nature Magazine. "Publication of The Sirius Mystery in 1976 set the world abuzz with talk of an extraterrestrial origin to human civilization and triggered a fifteen-year persecution campaign against Robert Temple by powerful intelligence agencies. Why many of the world's top secret organizations would commit such immense resources to suppressing Temple's research can only be speculated on, but the failure of their attempts is clear: Temple is back, with new scientific evidence that make his hypothesis more compelling than ever. Many authors have examined the subject of extraterrestrial contact, but never before has such detailed evidence been so thoroughly presented. Drawing equally on his astounding knowledge of ancient history, mythology, Pythagorean physics, and chaos theory, Temple connects the African Dogons' belief that they were visited by beings from Sirius to similar beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians, indicating that these cultures' great knowledge of physics and astrophysics most likely was imparted to them by extraterrestrials. Temple's conclusion that the alien civilization of Sirius and our own civilization are parts of the same harmonic system, destined to function and resonate together, is sure to bring about a profound reappraisal of our role in the universe." - from the rear outer cover. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Temple is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, the SOciety for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Egypt Exploration Society, the Royal Historical Society, the British School of Archaeology at Athens, the Institute of Classical Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research. His verse translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh was performed at the Royal National Theatre in 1993. He lives in London- from the rear outer cover. Champine, Peri (cover design) (illustrateur).…

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Photograph of the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. Glossy black-and-white photograph of the Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft, nicknamed "Glamorous Glennis," in flight. Boldly signed by nine of the program's test pilots: Chuck Yeager, Bob Hoover, Frank "Pete" Everest, Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, Robert A. Champine with "X-1 pilot, NACA, Muroc, CA, 1949," John H. Griffith, Gus Lundquist, Joe Cannon, and Scott Crossfield. In near fine condition. The piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches. Rare and desirable. The Bell X-1 was a rocket engine-powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S. Army Air Forces-U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h) in 1954. The X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designated for testing of new technologies and often kept secret. …